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Cutting Through the AI Noise: How Startups Can Stand Out in a Crowded Market

VC Cafe

As Andrew Chen points out in this tweet: WHY INVESTORS DON'T FUND AI STARTUPS you might know A16Z is running a seed-stage startup accelerator called SPEEDRUN where we're funding 40+ companies in the next 2 months with $750k per company. As pre-seed investors, it’s never too early to have a conversation.

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Should You Consider Replacing Yourself as CEO?

Both Sides of the Table

The confidence, energy, passion and humor that are hallmarks of Jonathan became muted in the pressures of needing to show financial successes to match one’s enormous product vision and ambitions. His vision for social analytics and tracking the conversion funnel was better than any I had heard at the time (or since).

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Introducing: Pitch Deck Month

View from Seed

Almost 5 years ago we released a resource for founders looking for guidance on their seed stage pitch decks. Today, it’s been viewed over 300,000 times on Slideshare , and is still one of the resources we hear positive feedback about from the greater founder community.

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Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

View from Seed

It’s amazing how often people don’t get to that in the conversation. Takeaway 3: Identify your team’s current learning style (especially among any existing tech talent or leaders, but also more generally across your early-stage team). Seek to match new hires to that. How could they fit into your team?

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Link Building: A Mission-Critical Component of SEO with Eric Carrell at DoFollow.io

Mucker Lab

A recap of the conversation is listed below, as well as the full webinar recording. By strategically choosing where and how to build links, businesses can create connections with different communities, tap into new markets, and extend their reach in meaningful ways.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. In December, AngelList , a service that matches early-stage startups with investors, debuted the ability to allow accredited investors to actually invest in startups on the platform with as little as $1,000.

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The Difference Between ?No? and ?Not Yet? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

When a startup doesn’t match the stage where a particular investor focuses, founders may get a response along the lines of “This is interesting to us, but come back once you get from X phase to Y phase” That could be from seed stage to a larger Series A financing need, or to progress from pre-product to post-revenue.